Graphic Design & Architecture

'Bayley, the author of books on style, design and taste, tells the Habitat story with his customary polycultural panache . . . [Mavity is] good at conveying the experience of...

'A terrific read, bubbling with anecdotes and insight' Daily Mail , 2021's best biographies 'Bayley, the author of books on style, design and taste, tells the Habitat story with his...

In this handy pocket guide, brought up to date in 2021 with the inclusion of twelve new buildings, well-known architecture writer John Walsh teams up with architectural photographer Patrick Reynolds...

This is an easy to use guide to a wide range of architectural styles, from classical times up through the post-modern era. For each style there is a definition, an...

"In The New Traditional, Darryl Carter laid out the principles of his widely recognized and beloved design aesthetic, which balances individual comfort with a subtle color palette to achieve serene...

Two hundred color photographs of exemplary rooms in a variety of styles, and 100 line drawings of home styles and specific pieces highlight this guide to theme design. Donohue, a...

An illustrated historical tour of London's 13 great railway termini, on a clockwise circuit from Paddington to Victoria. London's railway termini are among the most recognisable and familiar landmarks in...

Each book includes Notes for Parents in which a child psychologist offers some helpful insights.

The story of modernist designers Russel and Mary Wright and their collaboration to transform their Hudson Valley estate, Dragon Rock at Manitoga, into an artistic haven. In the mid-century era...

A children's book that describes Charles White's childhood influences and inspiration . Every day, young Charles White's mother took him to the Chicago Public Library, where the librarians looked after...

The 6th edition in Rockport's best-selling Best of Brochure Design series is the ultimate swipe file of new brochure design projects from top international designers. An unrivaled collection of the...

Green is like water; it is everywhere, and we can't live without it. Green is the color of nature and the environment. Green is life. Interior designer and style guru...

Offers a detailed look inside thirty-one country homes, from an Italianate palazzo in the Wine Country to a rustic weekend getaway near Big Sur.

An illustrated guide to the historic city of Oxford, by Sir Hugh Casson, well-known architect and watercolourist, who records in words and pictures his personal impressions of Oxford. Watercolour drawings...

A collection of retreats in idyllic places all around the globe. Mexico, Morocco, India, South Africa, Tahiti, Jamaica, Cuba, Columbia, Chile, Bali, Portugal, Spain and Australia - this book seeks...

Bringing life and warmth into our homes, creating comfort and atmosphere, colour is once more an important aspect of modern decorating. Classic neutral tones the ubiquitous range of white, cream,...

Nigel Tranter's gift for bringing Scottish history to life is demonstrated in this lively book which details 45 of the nation's castles with associated tales and traditions. With a broad...

One of the great but often unmentioned causes of both happiness and misery is the quality of our environment: the kinds of walls, chairs, buildings and streets that surround us....

More than 430 examples demonstrate the power of originality in design. Detailed commentary highlights each project's client, concept, purpose, specs and designer.

As much of a barometer of design as its successful predecessors, Night Fever 5 is a global overview of the prevailing trends in hospitality design. The luxurious volume consists of...

Heliopolis 21 projects and researches in fact aims at a radical change of architecture, starting from the convincement that the global crisis are due to the way we have built...

For the 50th anniversary of UniFor, a leading company that develops and creates solutions for the contemporary space-office, this volume covers 5 key decades in the history of Italian design....

about 40 projects listed by architect/designer in alphabetical order. The focus is on the architects and their most recent projects and if possible projects which have never been published in...

From Azzedine Alaia , Cristobal Balenciaga , and Coco Chanel to Alexander McQueen , Yves Saint Laurent , and Vivienne Westwood , more than a century's worth of fashion greats...

Zaha Hadid was a revolutionary architect. For years, she was widely acclaimed and won numerous prizes despite building practically nothing. Some even said her work was simply impossible to build....

With more than 2,000 four-color photographs on 1,000 pages, each of these books presents the most significant examples of luxurious living from recent years. In "The World Contemporary Architecture", architects...

A century after the founding of the Bauhaus-probably the most popular and yet controversial art school in Weimar-its name has become a byword, as well as a myth. Entire generations...

In 1969 the SPIEGEL publishers moved into a new space in Hamburg, and the company had it decorated to its specifications. The Danish designer Verner Panton (1926-1998) redesigned the building,...

Whether strict and orthogonal or undulating and curved, whether rough and natural or polished and elegant... Wood is nature's greatest resource, embedded in the history, culture and life of humans...